Before Hu Yifan and the others could even react to what had happened, they seemed to be swept along by some force and vanished from where they stood.
Yang Chen's space-time Dao Intent carried them straight out of the ancient castle, intending to cross over the enormous beetle and escape this place.
To Yang Chen, this was a task that could be accomplished with ease. He had not given much thought to anything else.
However, just as he tried to pass through the beetles with his space-time Dao Intent, the massive King of Beetles seemed to detect something.
In the next instant, it fiercely attacked an area of empty space, making Yang Chen's pupils contract.
"What? This King of Beetles can detect me while I'm moving through space?"
In that flash of lightning and spark, Yang Chen abruptly retreated with Hu Yifan and the other Hu family members.
The King of Beetles' attack slammed into space itself, shaking it until layer after layer was torn apart. A massive spatial rift was born just like that.
Yang Chen was instantly alarmed.
His space-time technique had actually been intercepted by the King of Beetles!
If he had been using his space-time Dao Intent alone, spatial travel would have taken but an instant—simple and decisive.
The King of Beetles would have had no chance of breaking it.
But while taking a group of people through space, the speed dropped far too much. Trying to maintain peak speed was harder than climbing to the heavens.
Still, Yang Chen had never expected the King of Beetles to be so sharp that it caught onto this. With one decisive strike into the void, it forcibly knocked him out of spatial movement.
Now, Yang Chen and the Hu family members were all left staring in stunned silence.